Driver for nForce4 LAN

[MadHorab]

My computer doesnt freeze, it just seem to mess up my USB drivers so neither my Keyboard or Mouse will work :S

[JerseyF1]

Hi all

 

Very new to this so please be gentle

 

Basically I have a Nforce controller which I have seen in Everest on Vista (number of which however I can't find). However in OS X (Kalyway 10.5.2) I am not seeing this in System Preferences Network. I am trying to connect by PPPoE and nothing appears in the Ethernet drop box.

 

All is well in Vista and this as far as I know is the only problem which I seem to have within OS X. Everything else seems to have worked extremely well (sound works, resolution fine, speed to my knowledge similar to actual Macs albeit a little yet mainly unnoticeable)

 

My specs are below:

Acer Aspire E360 - N873

AMD Athlon 64 3500+

240 GB HDD (Vista on 200GB drive, OS X on 40GB drive)

2GB RAM

GeForce FX6600 256MB

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Cheers

 

JerseyF1

 

EDIT:

 

Reinstalled the OS and checked the forcedeth box as a installable addon. I can set up Ethernet now however it still isn't connecting to the router. The router is connected to another PC running Win XP, would any sharing need to be done or could I just connect to the router somehow? I have set up a manual IP, the WINS is setup, tried DCHP but still nothing. The router is Zyxel

 

I have also checked in Network Utility. Packets are being sent, a small amount is received and the link is shown as 100mbps so I would guess it has picked up something. Could it be the router and not the Mac OS itself.

 

Thanks in advance for help. Have been trying google all day and had no luck.

[luiz86]

I recommend loading it and unloading it manually with the command (in Terminal):

 

kextload -v <path to forcedeth.kext>

 

Before that, you should (in a separate Terminal window), type "tail -f /var/log/system.log", so that you can get the debugging output from the kernel. If necessary, unload it later by:

 

kextunload <path to forcedeth.kext>

 

Load it and tell me all the messages from forcedeth. It looks something like this for me (this is how it should work):

 

forcedeth: Initializing.

forcedeth: Probing.

Starting.

forcedeth: PCI subsystem 0x1043:0x8141 opened.

forcedeth: Mapped from 0xD2100000 of length 4096.

forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x34d22000, tx at 0x34d22400, wired at 0x2902e000.

forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: 00:15:F2:50:EF:C6.

forcedeth: Found PHY 0x3080:0x000c at address 9.

com_triton_forcedeth: Ethernet address 00:15:f2:50:ef:c6

forcedeth: Enabling

forcedeth: Network link down.

forcedeth: Link speed now 100Mbps, code 0x10064.

 

This should all appear in quick succession, though a second or two is needed before the last link is displayed and the network is established.

 

What I'm specifically curious about is whether forcedeth ever gets to the "enabling" part.

 

EDIT: I've changed the driver a little so it's slightly more verbose, also I removed an tx/rx control flag that wasn't supposed to be there.

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Initializing.

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Probing.

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: WARNING - your nVidia device 0x10DE:0x0269 is not known to work, but it could be supported in the future. Please contact the coder. Continuing anyway...

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Starting.

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: PCI system 0x10DE:0x0269, subsystem 0x103C:0x30B7 opened.

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Mapped from 0xC0008000 of length 4096.

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x2df79000, tx at 0x2df79400, wired at 0x169fb000.

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: 00:1B:24:4F:B7:C5.

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Found PHY 0x0700:0x0032 at address 1.

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: com_triton_forcedeth: Ethernet address 00:1b:24:4f:b7:c5

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Enabling... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Starting transmit/receive engines

 

Jun 24 21:07:39 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Network link down.

 

Jun 24 21:07:40 luiz-santls-mac-pro kernel[0]: forcedeth: Link speed now 100Mbps, code 0x10064.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it seems to activate; however its still an address of 169.254.**.** and subnet of 255.255.0.0...

 

 

 

 

 

PLEASE help

[Genius blog]

Hello Im new at this. I just got os x leopard running on my computer WOooHOoooo! But I had no networking. So I tried version 3 and 2 of the driver posted and when i tried version 3 I got to step 9 and when i entered the command a window apeared saying "A new network interface has been detected" then everything froze . Whats wrong? I tryed it like 5 different times and the same thing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

EXACT SAME PROBLEM HERE! I mean i don't think it froze but I get the "a new network device has been detected" and then my mouse freezes. The Network Preferences button blinks though.

 

My computer doesnt freeze, it just seem to mess up my USB drivers so neither my Keyboard or Mouse will work :S

 

Yea same here. I tried to unplug and plug it in, but no dice, tell me if either of you got a fix.

[djabdel88]

I have a M2N too, i don't find a driver that could be working.... It freezes after Terminal....

 

Thank you, i have a problem too with my usb port...

 

I'm using Kalyway 10.5.2 ! What version will be better for my motherboard ? Zephyroth ?

[quitte]

Hi.

MCP-67 is partially working.

pciid: 0x054c10de

 

I have a dsl router and a modem. The driver always detects plugging/unplugging of the cable. I always get a self assigned ip. When I'm connecting to the modem I can make a pppoe connection to the internet!

 

My guess is that the driver doesn't detect wether the cable is straight or crossover. I guess I'll make a crossover cable to try and confirm this thought.

 

I hope this information helps fixing the driver for mcp-67 users. if you need any more information pm me.

[baicunko]

got a M2N and i could bypass the freezing with a newer version but it doesnt detect if the cable is connected!

[skarmiglione]

loadkext /tmp/nForceEthernetController.kext

 

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949\cocoasubrtf270

{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}

{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}

\paperw11900\paperh16840\margl1440\margr1440\vieww9000\viewh8400\viewkind0

\pard\tx566\tx1133\tx1700\tx2267\tx2834\tx3401\tx3968\tx4535\tx5102\tx5669\tx6236\tx6803\ql\qnatural\pardirnatural

 

\f0\fs24 \cf0 extension /tmp/nForceEthernetController.kext has potential problems:\

Warnings\

\{\

"Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style" = true\

\}\

\

kextload: extension /tmp/nForceEthernetController.kext appears to be loadable\

kextload: loading extension /tmp/nForceEthernetController.kext\

kextload: /tmp/nForceEthernetController.kext loaded successfully\

kextload: sending personalities to kernel:\

kextload: from extension /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext:\

kextload: IONetworkStack\

kextload: Kernel Debugging Driver\

kextload: from extension /System/Library/Extensions/IOPCIFamily.kext:\

kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-Name\

kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-i386\

kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-PCI\

kextload: from extension /tmp/nForceEthernetController.kext:\

kextload: nVidia nForce LAN\

kextload: sending 6 personalities to the kernel\

kextload: matching started for /tmp/nForceEthernetController.kext\

}

 

 

00:06.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE [10de:03ec] (rev a2)

00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet [10de:03ef] (rev a2) seems like my ethernet card, but it does not start.

00:08.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller [10de:03f6] (rev a2)

 

 

but dont work.

how can i do?

board: k9n6gm

lan:realtek8201cl @ nforce alc8xx

[Kris Ferein]

I have a perfectly running built-in MAC lan on my Nforce 790i SLI Ultra with the attached Forcedeth kext. BTW I installed my 10.5.2 from Leo4Allv3. Although I have not installed the 10.5.3 combo update but I DID however updated all my kexts to 10.5.3 kexts.

 

Let me know if the attached kext helps someone

 

My current flags are -f cpus=1.

 

Hi,

I have the same mobo(EVGA 790i Ultra SLI) and installed Leo4All v3, checked forcedeth-v upon install and NforceTest.

Network worked for me when I first plugged in the cable into my first nvidia eth controller(I was using the other one at the time from windows). However, after rebooting into Windows and enabling the same controller in Windows, I have been unable to get anything but "Self-assigned IP address" for my netcard in Leopard 10.5.2. I have read it might be a DHCP server issue. I've reset my router quite a few times, disabled manual IP/MAC address mathcing and such but no luck. I annoys me that it once worked and then stopped working.

What drivers did you install when you installed Leo4All v3? What ACPIPlatform vers and such? I will try to reinstall.

Help .

Thanks.

-----

Yeah, well, looks like I'll answer myself. Got it to work but with some sacrifices.

One: cpus=1. Damn it.

Two: I mustn't use the controller I use in Leopard in Windows or the DHCP in Leopard will get screwed up.

 

That's all I've got so far. Kudos to planetbeing. Wish there was like a team or smth doing some dev on this driver. I guess I might start hacking myself now that I was able to download Xcode without kernel panics and install it. I wrote some drivers for Linux and a rather broken firewall driver for Windows. If only I had more free time and NO job (!

 

I guess I could always plugin my ol' cheapo Realtek.

------

 

@planetbeing:

Hi, great work. If we would trace all the drivers method and have people with 2 cores send us their system log after a crash couldn't we track the problem?

Also, we all assumed it's a synchronization problem but maybe it's something else having to do with the kernel's scheduler or architecture?

 

In the Linux kernel for example, that became preemptive starting with 2.4 you have to protect data access with spin locks or things like that in irq handlers or syscalls handlers and things like that. That is functions that you know will be called at an unpredictable time. Of course you have to protect the same data if you access it from somewhere else as well. So, what do you say, can we track down and fix this 2 cores-kernel-panic problem?

And...Is there a book like "Linux Device Drivers" but for the Darwin kernel?

 

P.S.

At some point somebody posted a version that he said was very safe. I tried that as well and my Leopard froze just as well.If he was right and he did protect the data against all possible sync issues than maybe it is something else.

[jpeazy]

Hi,

I have the same mobo(EVGA 790i Ultra SLI) and installed Leo4All v3, checked forcedeth-v upon install and NforceTest.

Network worked for me when I first plugged in the cable into my first nvidia eth controller(I was using the other one at the time from windows). However, after rebooting into Windows and enabling the same controller in Windows, I have been unable to get anything but "Self-assigned IP address" for my netcard in Leopard 10.5.2. I have read it might be a DHCP server issue. I've reset my router quite a few times, disabled manual IP/MAC address mathcing and such but no luck. I annoys me that it once worked and then stopped working.

What drivers did you install when you installed Leo4All v3? What ACPIPlatform vers and such? I will try to reinstall.

Help .

Thanks.

-----

Yeah, well, looks like I'll answer myself. Got it to work but with some sacrifices.

One: cpus=1. Damn it.

Two: I mustn't use the controller I use in Leopard in Windows or the DHCP in Leopard will get screwed up.

 

That's all I've got so far. Kudos to planetbeing. Wish there was like a team or smth doing some dev on this driver. I guess I might start hacking myself now that I was able to download Xcode without kernel panics and install it. I wrote some drivers for Linux and a rather broken firewall driver for Windows. If only I had more free time and NO job (!

 

I guess I could always plugin my ol' cheapo Realtek.

------

 

@planetbeing:

Hi, great work. If we would trace all the drivers method and have people with 2 cores send us their system log after a crash couldn't we track the problem?

Also, we all assumed it's a synchronization problem but maybe it's something else having to do with the kernel's scheduler or architecture?

 

In the Linux kernel for example, that became preemptive starting with 2.4 you have to protect data access with spin locks or things like that in irq handlers or syscalls handlers and things like that. That is functions that you know will be called at an unpredictable time. Of course you have to protect the same data if you access it from somewhere else as well. So, what do you say, can we track down and fix this 2 cores-kernel-panic problem?

And...Is there a book like "Linux Device Drivers" but for the Darwin kernel?

 

P.S.

At some point somebody posted a version that he said was very safe. I tried that as well and my Leopard froze just as well.If he was right and he did protect the data against all possible sync issues than maybe it is something else.

 

I am running into the same exact problem. I have my valid MAC address however my IP is bogus (a 169). I have tried using both eth ports, disabling one at a time, and putting a manual address in and nothing has worked for me.

[Kris Ferein]

I am running into the same exact problem. I have my valid MAC address however my IP is bogus (a 169). I have tried using both eth ports, disabling one at a time, and putting a manual address in and nothing has worked for me.

 

OK. Try this:

Disable in windows(and probably any other OS) the controller you will use for Mac OS X.

Convince your router if you have one to release all DHCP addresses, that is to clear it's DHCP allocation table. Add two entries in the manual DHCP allocation table for your two nvidia eth controllers. You could try a ipconfig /release as admin in windows to release assigned addresses. If this doesn't work reset your router.

After you are done with all this, unplug your computer for a while and boot in Mac OS X. After it has booted, plug in the cable in thge controller you want to use for Mac OS X(for me it was the first one because the second controller never detected the cable as plugged in - e.g. the controller with the lowest MAC address).

If you ask me, the forcedeth thing is too much of a hustle, I am thinking of plugging in my old Realtek controller any day now. Or even buying a new one. I just don't like packing things around my videocard and my PICe slots. I am also thinking of doing SLI in the future and things might get really crowded in there.

There's probably some bug in the IP broadcast code in conjunction of an already assigned DHCP address.

It's really weird.

Hope this helps.

[SteelWings11]

Hi,

 

After many tests i made 3 little scripts to make my MCP61 Ethernet work.

I used forcedeth driver from Andrewneo (but my computer froze when I downloaded a file)

I used forcedeth 0.3c from planetbeing (but it froze my computer when i launched the driver (both forcedeth & forcedeth-nockd)

 

Now i melt the two driver and my connection work (without the cpus=1 flag)

Just unzip the attachement on desktop and it works fine, launch the Internet, internet 2 & internet 3 scripts.

 

I'm looking for an easier solution, so if you can help me...

 

Your solution worked for me kinda. I have to run the 3 scripts everytime i boot my computer and then i have to manualy put in my mac address, IP, Router IP, ect. and then it still says no cable pluged in but it works. So for it to work i have to do that everytime i reboot.

any ideas? Thanks.

[thedude26]

I'm still trying...

[Kris Ferein]

I have a perfectly running built-in MAC lan on my Nforce 790i SLI Ultra with the attached Forcedeth kext. BTW I installed my 10.5.2 from Leo4Allv3. Although I have not installed the 10.5.3 combo update but I DID however updated all my kexts to 10.5.3 kexts.

 

Let me know if the attached kext helps someone

 

My current flags are -f cpus=1.

 

Did you try running without cpus=1 ?

[tenpinben]

well note to everyone beforehand, I'm new at this and I have no idea what I'm doing

I've got a FSB 1066 nForce 570 SLI motherboard with a NVIDIA nForce Network Controller,

this fix SHOULD work for that right?

 

if not, any other patches that will work?

[icehacker]

Hi i just bought the board [Asus Striker II Formula] 4 days ago and now am running 10.5.2 using iATKOS v2

 

It would be gr8 if i can get a solution from one of u gurus for my problem ; whis is the network cards dont show up i used the nForceEthernetController.kext which ended up showin me one lan and one wifi port i guess i used the wrong one..

 

and now i found this post , got forcedeath and my card is not comming up here is the o/p

 

[0]: forcedeth: Initializing.

[0]: forcedeth: Probing.

[0]: forcedeth: WARNING - your nVidia device 0x10DE:0x0373 is not known to work. Continuing anyway...

[0]: forcedeth: Starting.

[0]: forcedeth: PCI system 0x10DE:0x0373, subsystem 0x1043:0xCB84 opened.

[0]: forcedeth: Mapped from 0xEFFFA000 of length 4096.

[0]: forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x5aa60000, tx at 0x5aa60400, wired at 0x2fb6f000.

[0]: forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: 00:1F:C6:49:66:0B.

[0]: forcedeth: Found PHY 0x5040:0x0003 at address 1.

[0]: forcedeth: Initializing.

[0]: forcedeth: Probing.

[0]: forcedeth: WARNING - your nVidia device 0x10DE:0x0373 is not known to work. Continuing anyway...

[0]: forcedeth: Starting.

[0]: forcedeth: PCI system 0x10DE:0x0373, subsystem 0x1043:0xCB84 opened.

[0]: forcedeth: Mapped from 0xEFFF7000 of length 4096.

[0]: forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x5abd2000, tx at 0x5abd2400, wired at 0x2ed70000.

[0]: forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: 00:1F:C6:49:70:99.

[0]: forcedeth: Found PHY 0x5040:0x0003 at address 1.

[0]: com_triton_forcedeth: Ethernet address 00:1f:c6:49:66:0b

[0]: forcedeth: Enabling... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[0]: forcedeth: Starting transmit/receive engines

[0]: forcedeth: Network link down.

[0]: com_triton_forcedeth: Ethernet address 00:1f:c6:49:70:99

[0]: forcedeth: Enabling... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[0]: forcedeth: Starting transmit/receive engines

[0]: forcedeth: Network link down.

 

and also this is needed i guess

 

Warnings

{

"Kext has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style" = true

}

 

kextload: extension forcedeth.kext appears to be loadable

kextload: loading extension forcedeth.kext

kextload: forcedeth.kext loaded successfully

kextload: sending personalities to kernel:

kextload: from extension /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext:

kextload: IONetworkStack

kextload: Kernel Debugging Driver

kextload: from extension /System/Library/Extensions/IOPCIFamily.kext:

kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-Name

kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-i386

kextload: IOPCI2PCIBridge-PCI

kextload: from extension /Users/macosx/Desktop/forcedeth/build/Release/forcedeth.kext:

kextload: nForce 4 LAN

kextload: sending 6 personalities to the kernel

kextload: matching started for forcedeth.kext

pls tel me what i need to do

 

 

can i just why noone is replying to my post is it not gonna work for me

[nipit]

hi, when I install this driver I got this error

Jul 15 22:06:29 localhost kernel[0]: forcedeth: Mapped from 0xFE02B000 of length 4096.

Jul 15 22:06:29 localhost kernel[0]: forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x1acbc000, tx at 0x1acbc400, wired at 0x16585000.

Jul 15 22:06:29 localhost kernel[0]: forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: 00:50:8D:9D:8B:05.

Jul 15 22:06:29 localhost kernel[0]: forcedeth: Could not find a valid PHY.

Jul 15 22:06:29 localhost kernel[0]: forcedeth: Stopping

 

How to solve this problem.

My Mobo is

Abit KN9

Chipset Nvidia NF4 Ultra

Nvidia GbE

 

Thanks

[darkmagician]

Hi could someone tell me or point/link me somewhere where i can get drivers to get LAN working for my chipset its a nForce 570 sli

 

my mobo is Asus M2N SLI Deluxe

AMD 5600+

2/gb corsair DDR2 800

I have vista running on the other harddrive. im using IDE for Leo.

 

using Kalyway 10.5.2

everythign is fine except the LAN and USB ports at the back.

 

also if someone can tell me how to get the F8 bootloader, because i had it with zeph's version but not kalyway. is there a way to get it back?

 

please help thanks!

[jack_j]

IF ANYONE CAN WALK ME THROUGH ALL THIS STUFF..I'LL GLADLY PAY YOU $50..I JUST DONT HAVE TIME OR PATIENCE TO FIGURE THIS OUT...UGH

 

JT

[fov]

I installed leo4allv3 on my MSI K9N Neo-F Mainboard (nForce 550 chipset) with a SATA hdd and SATA dvd driver and hat some troubles to make forcedeth work. Here are my experiences:

 

planetbeing's driver from the first post of this topic crashes my system. If loaded at boot time, the boot process suddenly stops and after several minutes of inactivity, it displays "disk0s2: data underrun". So I removed the forcedeth.kext from the system extensions and it boots up without network fine. However, trying to manually load forcedeth.kext from a terminal, makes osx become unusable. First it looked like it crashed, but I realized that it seems to run ok, but just disabled keyboard and mouse so that I couldn't interact anymore.

 

So I tried AndrewNeo's driver updated_leopard_plus_mcp61_r1.zip from page 29 of this topic - and even though under Linux, lspci says that my card is a MCP55, the MCP61 version from AndrewNeo loads fine and works.

 

However, I still have a problem with this driver. On power up or if rebootet from Windows XP into OSX, it doesn't get an IP address and falls back to a self-assigned IP. So I manually configured the interface and expected it to work, but it didn't. Running tcpdump on en0 shows that the interface receives packets from other computers on the LAN and also sents out packets - but those packets don't arrive. If I ping the router of my net, OSX keeps sending out ARP requests to find out the router's mac.

 

It looks like the driver sents out packets, but the card drops them instead of sending them. None of the tips on this forum helped, like turing off power after using windows, using ipconfig /release and reboot into OSX or even reset the DHCP server... I finally found out, that it works, if I boot Linux and reboot into OSX.

 

I assume that there's something wrong with the card initialization of this kext. The packet sending seems to only work if the Linux driver has correctly initialized the card before.

 

Update: It crashes on large downloads and even on some websites with larger images sometimes. cpus=1 seems to work around it.

[serigei]

I was using the 0.3 leopard version perfectly on a PATA drive, but I just installed to my SATA RAID and I've found that as soon as it's loaded, it causes a hard lock. No kernel panic debug text, nothing. /var/log/system.log doesn't show anything unusual. It's almost as if my USB ports stopped working, but nothing else on the screen is updated either. Again, the EXACT same driver works flawlessly on an identical installation, the only difference being that one OS is installed on a PATA disk, the other on a SATA RAID (created in Disk Utility).

 

Anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

 

EDIT: forcedeth.kext does still cause a hard lock only on the RAID, but forcedeth-nock.kext seems to work okay. What's the difference? Searching this thread and google doesn't tell me.

[Leandro BH]

Hi everyone

 

I've an Asus Notebook F3T w/ a network card MPC51 id=0x0269

 

I've read all pages from this post, tried everything, every driver I found but nothing.

 

I've changed the info.plist to insert my 0269 in most or all of them but everytime I kextload the kext, it goes

 

[0]: forcedeth: Version 0.2b.A

[0]: forcedeth: Initializing

[0]: forcedeth: Probing

[0]: forcedeth: Starting

[0]: forcedeth: PCI system 0x10DE:0x0269, subsystem 0x1043:10x1385 opened.

[0]: forcedeth: Mapped form 0xDC6BC000 of lenght 4096.

[0]: forcedeth: Allocated 3072 bytes of contiguous memory for DMA: rx at 0x33689000, tx at 0xd89b000.

[0]: forcedeth: Found nForce4 LAN with MAC: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[0]: forcedeth: Found PHY 0x5040:0x0003 at address 1.

[0]: com_triton_forcedeth: Ethernet address XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[0]: forcedeth: Enabling... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[0]: forcedeth: Starting transmit/receive engines

[0]: forcedeth: Network link down.

 

and then, it desables the my network card and I have to restart the computer again to have activity led blinking again.

 

Almost everything on my nb is running ok.. just USB drives and the Network aren't... please, someone, help me!!!!!

[serigei]

Me again.

 

Seems that forcedeth-nock.kext is causing hardlocks now, as is forcedeth.kext, on my SATA RAID. No clue what made it decide to suddenly stop playing nice with my nForce4 SATA disks. I'm not gonna deal with it anymore for a while, as I just spent about 5 hours pulling my hair out trying to figure out what I messed up, not even realizing it was forcedeth again.

 

EDIT:

Removed my little venting rant because apparently what was causing crashes after booting WAS the AppleNForceATA.kext (the one from MeDevil in the sticky) I was using for my SATA, but forcedeth does still hang the system on boot.

 

So it's two seperate problems that happened to manifest themselves at the same time. Both happen with or without the other kext present, so I don't think they're conflicting with each other.

 

EDIT2 (and hopefully last for a while):

After much testing this evening, I believe I've found the answer to both my problems (forcedeth and AppleNForceATA). I'm using 4GB of RAM. I had read that AMD users should limit it to 2GB by adding memmax=2048 to com.apple.boot.plist, and I did, but somewhere along the line I forgot I had removed it without putting it back on. Everything seems to be stable now and no crashes even if I try to stress the system as much as I can. Multiple reboots, hash checks during large installers and file transfers, etc. It is a pain to be limited to half my RAM, sure, but I was planning on getting a new machine in a few months anyway, so I'll live. Sorry for complaining when it was a known issue caused by my own forgetfulness.

 

Reposting this edit on the "NForce SATA Controller" sticky in the SATA/IDE forum.

[TomCos]

just installed...but both of my ethernets say not connected...any ideas? did a restart...also did a shutdown, unplug for 30 seconds for the MAC...still no luck...

[xAlpha]

I've followed everything here, but I can't get the Hackintosh to turn on the LAN devices. It says they're there, and says no cable connected, but looking at the back of the machine, it isn't lighting anything up, and the port on my router is dark.

 

EDIT: Forgot.

 

It's an eVGA 680i board, 122-CK-NF68-A1